{"id":10249,"date":"2021-09-03T08:34:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T12:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10249"},"modified":"2021-09-01T08:36:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T12:36:37","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-september-3-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10249","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for September 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe highest being on earth, man, were he not destined everlastingly to glorify the eternal God, and were he not immortal, the earth would be a sorrowful spectacle of the all-destroying and all-devouring death, and God would be only the God of the dead, and not of the living upon earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(St Sebastian of Jackson,\u00a0 \u2018Preaching\u2019 homily collection, 1899)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10250\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Botanical-Garden-49842-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Botanical-Garden-49842-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Botanical-Garden-49842-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Botanical-Garden-49842.jpg 936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe highest being on earth, man, were he not destined everlastingly to glorify the eternal God, and were he not immortal, the earth would be a sorrowful spectacle of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10251,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10249\/revisions\/10251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}